On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
lashonharangue
Our ship anchored on the north end of Santa Cruz Island. We had one final morning excursion on Bachas Beach before we sailed to nearby Baltra Island with its airport.
Just inland from the beach landing was a brackish pond with one Flamingo.
Walking along the beach we saw a marine iguana.
I got this photo as it headed toward the water.
At the far end of the beach was a rocky coast with various animals hanging out.
This is a Whimbrel.
And a Great Blue Heron.
And finally a brown pelican coming in for a landing.
Trip over we were taken to the airport for our flight home after a short stop in Quito. Here is a map that shows the route of the ship. My understanding is these routes are regulated by the government of Ecuador. So you need not take the ship we booked to see these sights. Price is driven by the number of passengers (the bigger the ship the lower the cost).
Definitely a bucket list trip!
eclare
Very cool photos!
Baud
Great series.
Benw
Looks so awesome! Iguana go there someday.
Albatrossity
Nice series!
I was surprised to see a whimbrel on San Cristobal on one of our trips there. It was late May, so it had clearly decided not to go back to Alaska and try to raise kids that season! What time of year was your trip?
delphinium
What a wonderful trip and photos-thanks for sharing!
WaterGirl
Thank you so much for this whole series!
Betty
What a wonderful experience to share with us. Such great pictures.
lashonharangue
@Albatrossity: February
tybee
@WaterGirl:
yup
eachother
Galapagos. Finches. Tortoises.
Darwin
Great journal. Thank you.
StringOnAStick
The first time we saw those marine iguanas we realised what Godzilla was patterned after. Funny that they just eat sea grass, they look scary but are pretty mellow and nonthreatening.
Thanks for your photos; it reminded me of our trip there. My husband has big issues with sea sickness so spending the night on a boat wasn’t going to work for him. We were land based on Santa Cruz and did day excursions on a 24 person boat; husband got by with scopolamine patches and was a good sport about it.